Tag Archives: todo-list

In my ongoing quest for the Holy Grail of ToDo lists, I found a site that could just about be the right one. The site is called Stikkit. If you watch the demo you can see the amazing functionality of this software. For example. If you type lunch with Dave tomorrow at 12. It will add this appointment in your online calendar. If you say to copy Ted, Dave and Fran on the note, it will attach the note and email it to them. There are far too many features to list them all. They are on a fast track to add more features. Have a look at the screencasts for demonstrations.

How many Post-It notes or scraps of paper do you have in your wallet or purse? How many different lists do you have floating around? No More! Now you can have one list, or one list per category. But no more transporting information around to try and consolidate it. As an added bonus, and for those of us with signifigant others. You can share your list. So whether it is a grocery list, or a “honey-do” list or goals. You can have it all in one place. A few posts back during one of my Web 2.0 discussions I talked about a company called 37 Signals. One of their products is called TaDa lists. It allows you to create lists online. So if you’re at work and something comes to mind, you simply add it to the list. When I get home, I simply call up the list and review. I have added the web site to my links folder in my favorites. So it gives me a button on my browser. I have created several lists. Personal To Do’s, Work at home and Blog topics. Now I can go to my Blog topics list and check off “Never WRITE another To Do List!” If you would like to have input on my Blog Topics, drop me an email, and I can share the list with you.

One of the areas of interest for me is organization. There are so many tools out there that allow you to keep track of things. Some of my favorite sites to find out about these are Lifehacker and 43 folders. Both of these sites have all sorts of suggestions on making life easier. (take anything posted on April 1st with a grain of salt, as it was April Fools day).

I have an ongoing search for the perfect project tracker. At the present time I am using Microsoft’s OneNote. What it lacks in features, it makes up for in simplicity. The key thing about OneNote is that it allows me to easily make a list in outline format. This is how I think. Major bullets divided into smaller actions. The one feature that is lacking would be a way of assigning a bullet to a person and then being able to summarize a person’s list of actions. Maybe they’ll add that to Office 2007.

A newer site that is getting a lot of attention is 30 boxes. This site is a online calendar application. It uses some newer technology called Ajax to give the user a better experience on the Web. This site is on the list of Web 2.0 sites. Check back soon for my posts about Web 2.0.